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Originally Posted by !@#$%!
i havent heard the squeals on this board. it's always rich-people concerns: how indie are my sneakers, is sonic youth selling out, etc. the tears of the spoiled.
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But the piece posits starving dogs just
around the corner. We rich folk are forbidden that awareness. We are only aware of it in the back of our minds. Am I the only one who feels the everpresent guilt come from the shadows when I see third world starvation on the news? You should really listen to my brother (who just returned from the Peace Corp) and I when we get a few drinks in if you really thing we're "always about rich-people concerns."
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Originally Posted by !@#$%!
ok... what kind of response are you looking for?
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I'm criticizing the claim that the dog in the gallery is no different from the dogs outside. The fact that the artist gains notoriety from the dying dog is what I'm most disgusted by. He's pointing his finger as he's counting his cash. To put forth something as "art" is to suggest that it is something worthy paying for to see. But once it is patronized, the artist is accusing the audience of hypocrisy for doing so. The hypocrisy is entirely the artist's and by his own words it is not art.